Pete Wentz Is Ready to Take His Family on the Road

After years of constant touring with Fall Out Boy, Pete Wentz has been, as he puts it, in "Dad land for the last year, year and a half." And he's ready to get back out there on tour with new band Black Cards, especially since he can have the best of both worlds.

"The great thing right now is that my family is very mobile and are able to tour with me. And I think that's the only thing that would've been a hurdle. But the fact they're kind of able to go, I want to be back out there," he says of touring alongside wife Ashlee Simpson and their 2-year-old son Bronx in a chat with PopEater. "And it's really cool to be able to see the world and to do it on a record company's dime, so I'd like to kind of do that and I'd like to show my son the world as well."

The former FOB-er and his Black Cards partner Bebe Rexha kicked off 2011 with the online release of the infectious track 'Dominoes,' and the ambitious rocker hopes that's just the opening salvo in a busy year for his new project.

"[We've] been pushing pretty hard for the spring. Gonna finish I think two songs by the end of the week and hopefully one will be the first single if I have any say in it," he says. "And then the spring and hopefully touring full time and getting back out there and into it."

Wentz spoke to PopEater to promote a charity Twitter race he's participating in as a coach of one of four teams. His team and the three others, helmed by Rev. Run Simmons [of Run-DMC fame], New York Yankee Nick Swisher and tennis superstar Serena Williams, respectively, are competing to get to Dallas for the Super Bowl in a race where all of the teams are fueled by tweets. Both Wentz and Simmons plan to have some fun with the competition.

"My management called me and said that Mercedes Benz was having a tweet competition, they called me and said they wanted me to pick my favorite charity and tweet for a good cause," Simmons says. "I'm like, 'That'll be perfect.' The Lower East Side Service Center is who I chose and I'm excited to get in this. I've been already doing a little bit of playing around with Pete Wentz, sent a couple of tweets at each other, posted some jokes, but I'm excited to be a coach."

Wentz, if he wins, has a chance at owning a part of music history. "We started tweeting back and forth and I'm like, 'Well, I'll bet you this pair of Supras,'" Wentz says. "And he's like, 'What about this pair of Adidas that Run-DMC wore?' I'm like, 'Oh, okay, can't really compete with that.'"

[You can follow all of the Twitter activity at #mbtweetrace and enter to compete for a 2012 Mercedes-Benz C-Class Coupe here.]

But Wentz is also very excited about his charity, one that he picked in part because of his own experiences of being a father. "My charity is St. Jude's Children Hospital. It's really an important charity to me, especially [since] becoming a dad the past two years of my life now and god forbid my son ever got sick," he says. "It's good people who are doing good things for children and Mercedes already made a donation."

The competition, which begins Feb. 2, is a win-win, especially for the coaches, who get money donated to their favorite charities and get tickets to the Super Bowl for their participation. Not bad. Neither Wentz nor Simmons had any predictions for the game, which Wentz admits might surprise some. "I don't know a whole lot about football, the craziest thing about me," he says. "For the amount that I've been surrounded by football, the last time I really, really, really focused on was the '85 Bears, which is kind of insane to say."